"gilded" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is covered in a thin layer of gold, something that has a false or shallow appearance of being valuable or important, or something that has been highly praised or celebrated. Example sentence: She was eager to show off her wealth with her gilded lifestyle.
PD After Rui Costa, Luis Figo, Pauleta & co were outed as frauds, Cristiano Ronaldo, Nani, João Moutinho & co have been identified as Portugal's real golden generation, but they too are at risk of being exposed as gilded tin.
Sources close to Julian Fellowes say he is not writing The Gilded Age yet and, anyway, it won't necessarily be the next thing he writes.
The episode, disclosed by Mr Brunner in his autobiography, Lambrais Dorés et Coulisses (Gilded Panels and Corridors), will be added to a list of indiscretions by the ex-PM's consort.
On a larger scale, they have a 20-foot (six-metre) gilded section of a Pennsylvania movie theatre façade, period rooms with their chandeliers, wall panelling and rugs intact and a 1920s artist-designed children's bedroom with inventive furniture (such as the jaunty chair pictured).Quality matters, rarity is appreciated but beauty gives way to documentary value and particular era.
Other chroniclers of American history talk of "ages" (Reform, Gilded, Jazz etc) that lasted no more than a decade or so.
A recent morning found Lexington at the 12th-floor studios of WMBD, a conservative talk-radio station, as the rising sun gilded the city's stubby skyscrapers, river and factory roofs.
In this context her staff of 50, footmen, pages, dressers, chauffeurs and a watchman who sat outside her door at night, seem less like deferential lackeys, more like warders.A remarkable number of royals have in recent years broken out of the gilded prison.
As a man used to "tremendous transience", a European cosmopolite with four languages, he warmed to these travelling players; and they to him, because he could open gilded doors.To sort out the "rats' nest" of their financial affairs required not only severing the Klein connection, but temporary exile from Britain to escape swingeing taxes.
I was not the only one who had made the pilgrimage: his headstone is littered with stones and pens left by fans.The opulence of some of the mausoleums reflects the Gilded Age, from which they came.
